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Study Reveals More Than $65B Worth of Minerals Discarded as E-waste in 2016

2017-12-15 16:17:15| Waste Age

E-waste contains precious metals like gold, silver, copper, platinum, palladium, iron and aluminum, but about 80 percent of that material ends up in landfills because its not properly disposed of.

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